A social explanation for the rise and fall of global health issues

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dc.contributor.author Shiffman, Jeremy
dc.date.accessioned 2009-09-15T20:20:58Z
dc.date.available 2009-09-15T20:20:58Z
dc.date.issued 2009-09-15T20:20:58Z
dc.identifier.uri http://bibliodigital.saludpublica.uchile.cl/dspace/handle/123456789/238 es_ES
dc.description Este articulo propone una explicacion por el enfasis que reciben algunos problemas de salud, como VIH/SIDA, y descuidan de otros problemas que tienen alta mortalidad y morbididad. Se encuentra publicado en: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/8/08-060749.pdf en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper proposes an explanation concerning why some global health issues such as HIV/AIDS attract significant attention from international and national leaders, while other issues that also represent a high mortality and morbidity burden, such as pneumonia and malnutrition, remain neglected. The rise, persistence and decline of a global health issue may best be explained by the way in which its policy community – the network of individuals and organizations concerned with the problem – comes to understand and portray the issue and establishes institutions that can sustain this portrayal. This explanation emphasizes the power of ideas and challenges interpretations of issue ascendance and decline that place primary emphasis on material, objective factors such as mortality and morbidity levels and the existence of cost-effective interventions. This explanation has implications for our understanding of strategic public health communication. If ideas in the form of issue portrayals are central, strategic communication is far from a secondary public health activity: it is at the heart of what global health policy communities do. Published at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/8/08-060749.pdf en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject global health en_US
dc.subject salud global en_US
dc.subject health policy en_US
dc.subject politicas en salud global en_US
dc.title A social explanation for the rise and fall of global health issues en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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